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The curious case of a Wandering mind

My mind kept drifting away. I was trying hard to sit and concentrate. I was fidgeting. It’s so difficult to make yourself to sit and listen to something which you are actually forced to listen to , something which you have to listen  to , and for something which you don’t want to listen , that too for 4 hours without a break.              Just the previous day I was conversing with my friend as to how she sits and concentrates at her CA classes for like 9 hours at a stretch! It’s so hard.   So after this conversation with her , the next day while I was sitting at a session , I decided to keep a track of how many times my mind keeps wandering away like in an hour. More than listening to what was happening in the session , I was keeping track of the numbers , and how it kept increasing an increment of one every five minutes. (Yes really short).             Here is the l...

Unpredictability rules!

I’ve given her the best possible education... What more could I do? I pay her music master fifteen rupees a month , her school fees amount to fifteen rupees and I pay ten rupees for her school bus..... ‘Yes’ he replied, ‘by securing endless adjournments.  Life today is most expensive. Well , those lines were stolen from a book I was reading last night , the Man-Eater of Malgudi , written by R.K Narayan.  I’ll get back to this as to why I started off my post with these stolen lines.  The START:  I did have an eventful weekend (That’s what I would say!) Sunday morning: I woke up at 10 am and decided to visit the church as I had nothing much to do. I started home with 150 Rs in my wallet (that’s enough to survive) and with two debit cards. After my visit to the church I decided to go on a shopping spree as I was still left with some money in my card. ‘Some’ over here meant exactly 1289 Rs only! Well , good enough to think of street shopping in Brigade road. Af...